Tallow

1) Don't take your wife to your meetings with professors.
2) Ask questions about the program. Course offerings, professional development opportunities (research, publishing, career workshops, co-authoring opportunities), funding for summer research/conference attendance/language study, etc.
3) If you're not that interested in the person's research, don't waste you time reading articles/books on it.
4) Ask about life in the area, what people do, cost of things, etc.

Claiming my Columbia rejection, too. I think they're coming now because I just spoke with the department - I told Fortna that a bunch of people were still in limbo, and she said she would speak to the DGS about it.

Edit: whoever is having fun downvoting practically every post I make, knock yourself out. I hope you find it satisfying on some deep, spiritual level.

I find myself again trying to defend someone I dont even know. (And have earned quite a few negative reputation points in the process.)

Why does anyone feel the need to "tell on" someone else? Maybe in a moment of panic she asked the question. But I hardly think it is up to a stranger to judge her for an inquiry she had.

And do you plan to tell on every single person in this forum who has been accepted somewhere and doesn't think they'll go? Because if not, that seems rather counter-intuitive to me.


I just want someone to explain to me why this forum has to be used for negativity instead of people congratulating others on their wonderful achievements and encouraging those who are still waiting on good news!

Looks like UCLA is sending a few rejections....

Doing the neurotic refresh button thing....an email from the ACLU popped up...

Yessssss!

Congrats to all the other people with acceptances

No information from UCLA or Duke yet. Please, admission committee gods, send me a sign!

Edit: also, balthasar, glad to see someone else is chainsmoking.

No. Chill. There's only been one acceptance, and apparently under extraordinary (possibly fake) circumstances. A phone call from a POI is not the way Stanford does acceptances. The admits go out all at once, and you'll see 7 or so of them posted the day it happens. This might be today at 5:00 Pacific time, since it would be the same as last year (3.5 weeks after their term began, on a Thursday). If you're not among that lot, only then can you assume you've been rejected.

My stats are pretty high - I wouldn't draw any conclusions about that just yet.